Quotes from Tituss Burgess

I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it.

My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It's one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don't know why she added an 's,' but she just did.

I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails.

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't have a problem.

Sondheim is New York.

I'm obsessed with the 'Real Housewives ATL,' sorry about it. It's one of my favorite shows of all time.

Miserable people tend to act out.

People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.

'Penny Dreadful' is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

I can call up a friend and have them meet me for a drink in 20 minutes, and suddenly, the night unfolds into this glorious, uniquely New York situation. I wouldn't give it up for the world.

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.

I fell asleep during 'The Dark Knight Rises.' I fell asleep during 'The Hunger Games,' all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I'm asleep!

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

Outside stimulation makes me nervous!

Life moves so fast, my friend. I am just lucky and happy to have the people I care about there along with me, watching all of this occur.

I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd jobs to pay the bills before that. And being in New York for the first year, I got here in 2003, and it was a very exciting but very scary time not knowing how you would make ends meet and me trying to meet people.

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing.

We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.